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| author | Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> | 2009-06-12 18:38:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> | 2009-06-12 18:38:36 +0000 |
| commit | 4b477ade4f01d4510ac44f4251b511b11d593318 (patch) | |
| tree | 2facc39d66a9f4fbf13fb72e9fb05bc5de7d2686 /gdb/exec.h | |
| parent | 0e27a8f69b7c9365e4ec543a3d27a24c968a7c16 (diff) | |
* exec.h (section_table_xfer_memory_partial): Improve description,
mention SECTION_NAME.
* exec.c (section_table_xfer_memory_partial): Remove stale
description.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/exec.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/exec.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/exec.h b/gdb/exec.h index 72b385c4b8..c1125e5f4b 100644 --- a/gdb/exec.h +++ b/gdb/exec.h @@ -39,12 +39,16 @@ extern int build_section_table (struct bfd *, struct target_section **, extern int resize_section_table (struct target_section_table *, int); -/* Request to transfer up to LEN 8-bit bytes of the target sections +/* Read or write from mappable sections of BFD executable files. + + Request to transfer up to LEN 8-bit bytes of the target sections defined by SECTIONS and SECTIONS_END. The OFFSET specifies the starting address. + If SECTION_NAME is not NULL, only access sections with that same + name. - Return the number of bytes actually transfered, or non-positive - when no data is available for the requested range. + Return the number of bytes actually transfered, or zero when no + data is available for the requested range. This function is intended to be used from target_xfer_partial implementations. See target_read and target_write for more |